Previously, Hanno said:
>This morning my colleague discovered what appears to be Bruker 200 MHz
>supercon NMR Magnet sitting outside on a junkyard in Metro Atlanta.
>The junkyard is asking $300 for this magnet - possibly they are even willing
>to go lower! Unfortunately the junkyard has only the magnet, the
>spectrometer already has been trashed completely!
>
>Is there any reason why it would be worth purchasing this magnet (other than
>that it would be a unique decoration for my yard)?
For the price of a box of cut off blades, a friend in a machine shop and
one sweaty weekend you too can have a beauty like this:
http://www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/~kvermill/cut_open3.jpg
Visitors both scientific and administrative yawn over pointless details
like megahertz, user base or alphabet soup laden experiment names but when
they see this display they perk right up.
I do not know the history on this magnet (it was donated) but the post
mortem reveals the cause of death to be #20--a broken charging plug. There
were bits of broken rubber hose inside the helium can from someone's last
ditch effort at resuscitation.
--
Dr. Karl Vermillion
NMR Lab Manager, Ohio State Department of Chemistry
office: (614) 688-8292 lab: (614) 292-5122
vermillion.10_at_osu.edu
Received on Mon May 23 2005 - 15:33:52 MST
